This myrmecochory has been well documented in the phasmid Extatosoma tiaratum, whose first instar nymphs go further by mimicking the ants of the genus Leptomyrmex (Mayr) in appearance and behavior (Key 1970): this presumably facilitates escape from the nest to the surface after hatching.

Wall spores found in Polytaenium have micro-ornamentations varying from scattered granules to clustered rod-like structures, none of which appear to resemble the spore walls of the polypods identified by Tryon (1985) as associated with myrmecochory.

Normally, ground-foraging ants collect insects from the leaf litter and ants are not obligately dependent on myrmecochory, but adding the food resource of elaiosomes can increase a nest's production of gynes (virgin queens) (Morales and Heithaus 1998).

Dispersal by ants, myrmecochory, is a special form of dyszoochory and is very important in many herbaceous plants, such as louseworts (Pedicularis), woodrushes (Luzula), asarabacca (Asarum europaeaum), and Galeobdolon [=Lamiastrum] luteum.

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